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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18
A HOTEL BURNED.
Tennessee's Press Association.

JOHNSON CITY, TENN, July 1.-THE
Tennessee Press Association yesterday al
Cloud Land elected j. Harvey Mathes, OF
Memphis. President; r. NJ. Reames, of Nc
Minnville, j. r. Resor, of Paris, and G. III
Slack, of Bristol, Vice Presidents; Pitkln =
Wright, of Nashville, Secretary, and W. A
chosen as the next place of meeting.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18

LONDON, July 17.-Slight shocks of earth
quake were felt in Sicily and along the
Italian coast at o'clock this morning
Mount Etna is in a state Of eruption. No
damage is reported.
A severe earthquake shock was felt to-
day at Malta. A serious shock was also ex-
perienced at Cairo, where one man was
killed and several injured. A number of
mosques were damaged. Shocks were also
felt at Isrnailia and Alexandria.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18
Colquitt on Temperance

,oDolh.l.cAGo, July 17.--At the National Con-
,Ueu ,Ugotion of the Womens' Christian Temper
Co,e. CTe mon, ut Lake Bluff, to-day, Senator
IG'o.lqqltt, of Georgia, gave some interesting
J,iaHuS JiluS OF what prohibition has done and is
S,,iS IN the South. In twelve Southern
tbvleS' tbo ne said, there were fewer saloons to
Sto. population than in any other dozen
Us not excepting Maine and Kansas.
ma option had been adopted in Georgia
eyor,'. yu 9bama, and prohibition was success
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18
AN ASSASSINATION SCARE.
Rumors of a Plot to Take the Life {
Emperor William.

Rumors of a Plot to Take the Life of
Emperor William.
PARIS, July 17-La M,tramzigeant an
nounces that the police at Grosgeren have
discovered certain documents which give
evidence of the existence of Socialist plot
to murder Emperor William of Germany
while journeying to Gasteina. Many arrests
have been made of persons charged with
being implicated in the plot
FAILS TO MATERIALIzE.
BERLIN, July 17.--In consequence of the
rumor that slips of paper had been found in
several places through which the imperial
train would pass, endorsed "To-night at
about midnight the Emperor's train passes,
be ready" a fictitious special train was dis
patched before the Emperor's. The route
from Mayence to Darmstadt was lined with
police and gendarmes Both trains passed
safely without incident.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18
TREvELYAN's SUDDEN TURN.

Chamberlain Suggests Four Questions
to Gladstone.
LONDON, July 17.-Mr. Chamberlain has
written a letter to the Radical Union, of
Birmingham, in which he expresses his be-
lief that Sir George Trevelyan has accepted
the vaguest Gladstonian assurance
in order to get back into Par
lament. If the electors are in doubt,
he says, let them ask Mr. Gladstone to give a
plain answer to these four questsons: "Will
he maintain the supremacy of the Imperial
Parliament "Will he retain the Irish
members at Westminister?" "Will he pro-
tect the Protestant minority?" "Will Par
lament retain all the powers necessary to
maintain law and order in Irelandgn
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18
Southwestern Railroads.

NEW ORLEANS, July 1.-THE fact was
developed yesterday that the Mississippi
Valley railroad has purchased a quarter of
a mile of river front above Carrollton, out
side of the city limits, upon which they will
build wharves and warehouses for the pur-
pose of handling their through business.
The Texas freight war continues. The
Texas Pacific road announces an additional
cut of 1Oc. per 100 pounds to common Texas
points upon Western produce. A cut OF
l2I6c. on salt will also be made.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18
TEMPERANCE AT TAMPA.
A Gospel Mass Meeting Held and al
Election Expected,

Election Expected.
TAMPA, FLA, July ia Gospel Tenn
perance mass meeting, under the auspices of
the Womans' Christian Temperance Union
of this city, was held this afternoon under
the large oaks at the Fort Brooke reserva-
ton. The speakers We're Gen. o. H. Brewst-
er, of Lake Charm; FW. Symons, of Tampa,
and Miss Mary Taylor, talented young
lady of Tampa. There was large and ap-
preciative audience, which shows that the
temperance cause is prospering in this city.
There is a great effort now being made by
the citizens to call an election upon the
whisky question, and it is thought the effort
will be successful.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18

bn"s AlsliliNGToN, July 1T.-Stephen B. Rob
nrio, .o, ol the firm Of Selden 81 Robbins, pro-
citv iy',Is ~ oi the Metropolitan Hotel in this
hiI,,, uled here this afternoon of general de-
botooY aged Is years. Ho had been in the
for ,o. business nearly forty years and was
Honsaa years proprietor of the Planters
Of NJ, OIL Augusta, Ga. and Overton House,
u NASHVILLE, Tenn.
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Prieoners to PRINT q Paper.

SALTWATER, MINI, July 17.-The con.
victs at the State prison will begin about
Aug. s the publication of weekly four
column folio newspaper called the Prison
Mirror, the object OF the enterprise being
to benefit the prison library fund. There
are four practical printers who will attend
TO the mechanical department, while pris-
oner Lew Schonmaker will be editor-in-
chief George z. Dodd, the prison store
keeper. has consented TO act as treasurer
and business manager.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18
Bicycle Racing.

LONDON, July 17.-At Birmingham, yes
,or6av Temple won the half mile bicycle
championship and beat the quarter OF a
u,iia Grass record made at Norwich on
Thurdsday. Woodside lost the twenty-five. We
mile championship race by yard. In the
same race Morgan's machine collapsed whlle
he was leading.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18
A cracksman Caught in the Act.

AUGUSTA, GA, July 17-At 3 o'clock
this morning a man giving his name as
stout or Strout and hailing from New
York, was arrested at Grove Town while in
the act of boring into the safe of the post.
master and express agents. He had a set OF
burglars tools and was drilling 70 Dlow '', tne
safe open with dynamite cartridges when
al
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18
A Cvclone in Wisconsin.

wAuPAcA, WIS, July ia cyclone at
I o'clock Yesterday evening wrecked the
oocra house in this city, unroofed two ho-
tels blew down the Episcopal church steeple
and caused other havoc. The Curran
% House was struck by lightning but no one
was injured. Farmers in the vicinity suf-
fe,ed heavy losses
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18

A new novel entitled 'At the Mercy Of
Tiberius," by Augusta Evans Wilson, will
be published in September. For many
years Mrs Wilson has been Lying in seclu-
sion in beautiful suburban home near Mo.
bile, Ala, ard it has been understood that
in obedience TO her husbands wishes, she
would never again resume her literary
work
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18
No Now Casas at Kev West

Of nl fa,.. VEST, FLA, July 17.--No new cases
there nave developed since yesterday and
SeCord now stands: Total cases to date, 1l9;
so O'''S' %; sick now, 81: discharged cured,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18
Mrs. Chanfrau Dead.

AsBURY PARK, N. j., July H. Mrs Sa-
die Chanfrau, aged "A years, wife Of actor
Harry T. Chanfrau, died this morning at
Long Branch. Mrs. Chanfrau was former
ly Miss Sadie Fulton, daughter of well
known hotel proprietor of Pittsburg.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18
WIN Force Him to Decline.

LONDON, July IA dispatch from st.
Petersburg says that in official circles there
il is firmly believed that the Gar will force
Prince Ferdinand, of Saxe-Coburg- 10 de-
cline the Bulgarian throne
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18

PEEKsKILL, N. Y, July H.-NayloI
Bros. & Aliens machine shop, a coal yard
a tenement and three wagons were burned
today. The loss is $4,000.
HOTEL BURNED.
HYANYIs, MASS, July 1.-THE Cot
ochesett House at Osterville, Mass, was
totally burned this morning. The guests
saved most of their effects and most of the
hotel furniture was saved. The total loss i:
estimated at S25,00O. The property is well
insured
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18

whose hand thy breath is, and all thy way,
thou hast not glorifed." If you treated
anybody as badly as you have treated God,
you would have made five hundred apollo
gies-yea, your whole life would have been
an apology. Three times day you have
been seated at Gods table Spring, summer,
autumn and winter he has appropri-
ately apparelled you. Your health from
Him, your companion from Him, your
children from Him, your home from Him;
all the bright surroundings of your life from
Him. O man, what dost thou with that
hard heart' Canst thou not feel one throb
of gratitude toward the God that made you,
and the Christ who came to redeem you,
and the Holy Ghost who has all these years
been importuning you. If you could sit
down five minutes under the tree of a
Saviour's martyrdom, and feel his warm
life trickling on your forehead, and cheek,
and hands, methinks YOU would get some
appreciation of what you owe to "a cruci-
fled Jesus.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24
The Hotel Clerks Mistake.
WaShipufo ON Crifio

He was stepping at the Ebbitt, and be-
coming i'll sent down for the clerk. Mr.
Ross flew up stairs and in about Is min
utes returned looking as pale as flesh
tabie-cloth.
regular boarders hanging on the edge of
the counter.
There's man up stairs with the hy-
drophobia" exclaimed Ross, in terrific
accents,
How do you know" said the regular
with excited interest.
Why he sent for me to come up to mis-
room, that he WIS sick; I went and I
found him choking; his throat parched
and dry, and calling feebly for something
to drink. I gave him a glass of ice-water,
but when he saw it he jumped wildly
Up, then knocked it out of my hands,
and looked as if he were going to have a
fit"
The regular looked serious and shook
his head ominouely, while Ross stood
trembling.
"Who is her" finally inquired the reg
uIar.
''Col. Bland, of Kentucky responded
Ross.
The regulars face underwent great
change.
"And you gave him ice-water?" he
said In plying amazement. 80, Ross,
Will you never learn the difference be-
tween hydrophobia patient and Ken
lucky politician?.'
And the regular strolled off toward the
SICK mans room leaving a cold, heartless
smile tor poor Ross.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Joe Howard has returned TO New York
from Montreal and says he will get even
with Pulitzer.
No hope is entertained of the recovery
OF Or. Lightfoot, the well-known rector
OF Exeter college. Oxford.
Messrs. Malone and Riddleberger are
SAID to be the only senators who never
visit the democratic side Of the chamber.
Professor E. E. Bernad, of Vanderbilt
university observatory, at Nashville, dis
covered another comet Wednesday even
ing.
The hearing at Morris, ILL.,, of Newton
Walls, charged with the murder of Ex-
press Messenger Nichols, has been post
poned until Feb. %.
t. 4. Morse, of the Yale theological
school has been rejected as missionary
by the American board on account of his
beliefs touching the future probation
hypothesis.
Judge Tourger says that there is one
chapter in sThe Fools Errand" which he
wrote ffty-eight times before it finally
went into the book. Six times it was
placed in type and then killed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24
A MOUNTAIN GIRL.
She Kills a Bear and Saves Her Sweetheart's
Life.
Naw YorE TournaI

She Kills Bear and Saves Her Sweetheart
Life.
New York Journal
Jennie Thompson, in the language of
Bill Rorton, is "a daisy and bsar-killer."
Bill and Jennie were married few
days ago in the Methodist Church at Hag
erstown. They drove eighteen miles over
the mountains in sleigh with the temper
ature about six to ten degrees below zero,
to have the knot tied.
''We don't mind the coId,' said Bill,
when after the ceremony, they re-entered
their sleigh for the homeward trip along
the ridge. "Jennie will feel as warm as
the time the big bear Rugged her, won't
you, Jennie?" and the muscular fellow
tucked the bear-skin robe about her and
pinched her cheeks to make the bushes
roster than love and Jack Frost could
make them.
Bill Rorton owes his life to this girl
The story is best told in Jennie's own
words.
at was the tightest squeeze I ever had.
You see, Bill and me had known each
other since we played about the Ragged
Edge Cliff. We were brought up on the
mountains. Bill came over to our pla re
often of evenings and We went to dances
together. One night last November Bill
had promised to take me to a dance,
saying he would call for me at eight
o'clock"
She said that it was clear, moonlight
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24
MABOO'S ORDNANCE BILL.
Substitutes Being Prepared.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-The house COM
mittee on military affairs day resumed
consideration Of the McAdoo ordnance
bill.
Mr.. Cutcheon presented a substitute
for the bill before the committee. 1t pro-
vides for the erection of gun factory
and for first class modern guns for the
army, sea coast and other defenses. 1t
appropriates 100000 for the pur-
pose. After the bill had been
read, Chairman Bragg stated that he
was engaged in the preparation of
substitute for the original measure
which he hoped to be able to lay before
the committee on Monday and with
view to allowing comparison of the va
rious measures and a combination of the
best features of each. The committee ad-
iourned without voting on Cutcheen's
proposition. Gen. Bragg indicated that
his substitute would provide for the crea-
ton of a testing board of which Lieuten
ant General Sheridan is to be a member.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24
Why They Danced.
Omaha Bee.

The police have just been appraised of
little adventure which a short time ago
befell Mr.. John KILKENNY, the we'll known
South Thirteenth street liquor dealer.
The story, though trife "chestnutty,"
is given as related at police head-quar-
tiers.
one mig n6 d toll, ro~shIy dnOzeed fellow
whose style of costume showed that he
was cowboy, stepped into Kelkennys
saloon. He was plainly under the in
fiuence of liquor. Throwing his hat back
on his head, he staggered up to the bar
and asked
''Be you the proprietor of this year
placer"
II guess I am" replied Mr., K. calm
ly.
"Well, them" drawing a big revolver
from his belt), Il want to see you dance
little for me!''
"But 1 can't dance: returned the
proprietor, keeping as calm demeano
as he possibly could under the circum-
stances.
eyes yer kin. Yer bet you'll have
to if | say So" replied the drunken COW
herder, brandishing his gun threading
ly.
Mr.. K. thought of the ancient maxim,
that discretion was the better bart of
valor, and coming out from behind the
bar went through all the dance steps he
could think of. He flung his feet in live
ly style for ten minutes before tbs COW
boy was satisfied.
''Thatll do no." he said. ssI guess yer
all right Now gil me horn of yer best
whisky"
Mr.. Kelkenny obeyed with an aIacrity
which was born OF desire to please a
dangerous customer. AS the cowboy was
enjoying his whisky ] John looked careless
ly at the revolver and said:
Cline revolver you've got there"
"Yes," replied the cowboy, evidently
fiattered, ''it's daisy"
''Let me look at it minute, will your"
asked Kelkenny, pouring out another
glass for the cowboy.
"Certainly," replied the cowboy, hand
ing over the weapon with one hand and
Selling the glass with the other.
He never drank the whisky, for as soon
as Mr.. K. had the weapon in his hand he
pointed it at the cowboy and uttered the
stern commands:
Nov you Dance" and he put the cow
boy through all the PAGES imaginable,
fast and slow. For half an hour he was
compelled at the point of his own weap-
on to keep his feet going.
When the ordeal was over he slung out
of the saloon, a very tired and ashamed
but wiser man. He was minus his revol-
yer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24
Bound to Fetch Her.
From the Chicago News.


"WelI, what can I do for vou?" asked
justice Mech of dusky maiden whose
thick lips fat nose and oily face shone on
the opposite side of the bar to that of the
court.
affirmative answer, she continues: "Coz if
yo' is l want wawant..'
"What do you want with warrant?"
"Well, I jess tell you, ledge. You see,
dis woman whar lib, she dun call me all
so'ts O. wicket names an
II can't issue any warrant for just SLAM
der.''
"What's dat yo' saying?"
II can't give you a warrant"
"Yo' kain't!'
M; you must go before some justice
of the peace"
"But look heah, jedge' she dun 'buse nae
outrageous; tar ha'r and call me cherry
ting"
II can't help it if she did" interrupted
the court the second time. "The city
don't employ me to hear your quarrels
If you had been in fight I might give
you warrant"
us dis whar de fights comes ?"
''It is"
"Den I'll hab fight. rs 'termined to
fetch dat woman foe de bah ob justice
[ want yo' to 'fict a big fine .on her,
Mars Mech, coz she's de vey debbil."
Cali rig at" answered the Court, smil-
ing, as the earnest complainant started
Off.
"I'll do it," she said, shaking her
finger at the the incredulous smiler. rs
comm back to dis court and if it takes a
fight, DAHL be a fight fo' suah!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24

as we had in 1880, we have now not less
than 1000, and their united circulation is
not less than 100000, instead CT the
100000, issued seven years ago. In
Philadelphia alone the issue of daily news
papers to regular subscribers and pur-
chasers has been more than doubled since
the census of 1880, and the growth of
both dailies and of their readers has been
greater within the last FIVE years than
during any ten previous years. The
daily newspaper is now the educator of
almost every home in the land; it is the
medium of all enterprising business
houses for extending trade, and it is
the leader in all the enlightened pro-
gress of the age. Ours is indeed, the
happy nation where the people read and
do the voting and the children go to
school.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24

night. Bill seldom came by the pain
road, but took a short cut through the
woods and bushes in the rear q their
farm. AS they were only going swo miles
and there was no snow on tte ground,
| they decided to walk. She mad put on
her red dress, and waited long and anxi-
ously for Bill
Il started down the path to meet hin,
| she said, when I was startled by pistol
| shot. ran back in the kitchen and took
down fathers hunting knife and rife
that hung on the wall. I ran as fast as
could. When 1 had gone about half &
mile l heard the shouts of Bill for help.
''There was Bill fighting big black
bear. He had wounded the beast, which
made it more savage than ever. 1 saw
that the bear was just crushing the life
out Of Bill, as he was SO weakened that
he could no longer fight. Drawing the
knife from my belt, I started for the
beast He had rolled Bill over on the
ground and IN another minute would
have mashed the life out of him.
She said she struck the knife into the
back of his neck, but the first stroke had
little effect more, than to make him turn
on her. He reared up on his hind legs,
and his claws caught Ia her red dress and
tore it down in strips. He clawed her
left arm terribly, and then threw his
great weight against her and dragged her
down to the ground. RiH could not help
her. He had lost his senses. She knew
1t was life Or death.
81 was pretty strong for girl" she
continued, "and game enough to fight
l had chung to my knife all the time, and
when the beast put his great paws about
me and nearly squeezed the breath out of
me, managed to get my right arm free
and drive the knife nearly up to the hilt
in his neck. He had rolled over, and he
had made ribbons Of my Sunday dress.
The blood from the wound in his throat
gushed over me. It was his death wound
| stabbed him several more times and
then managed to release myself from his
terrible grip
She said She dragged herself nearly ex-
haustsd, to where Bill was, and he came
to as she reached him. She was not
much hurt, though the bears squeeze
made every bone in her body ache. The y
did not go to the dance that night.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24
.
BRIGHAM j. YOUNG.
General agent for Wilson g.
Thompson's safety collins.
Territory for sale.
The Growth of Journalism.
PHILADELPHIA Times.
This Is my card:

The half million people who will read
the Times to-day can have only a very
imperfect appreciation of the wonderful
growth of journalism during the last de-
cade. The advance has been swift and
yet so steady that it attracted little
special notice; but there are many who,
when they peruse the immense eight
pages of frst-class journal that is sold
TOR single cent, must recall the fact that
such a newspaper as we issue to-day for
the lowest price known in our CON- could
not have been furnished at double the
price ten years ago, and would have cost
five times as much within the last twenty
years. This white paper in each copy of
the Times to-day would have cost the
publishers not less than five-cents for each
double sheet only twenty-five years ago;
now 1t Is retailed at one cent per copy and
sold to dealers at liberal reduction, with
little loss to publishers.
In 1850 there were only 1926 news
papers of all classes published in the
United States, with an aggregate circula-
ton of 5,142, III. In 1880 we had H.
4e3 newspapers, with circulation of 81
1884. Of the newspapers published in
1850 OILY 254 were dailies, with an aggre-
gate circulation of 1854 In 1880 we
hou ooO udllIeS W1Un a c1rculat1On Or D.
63l,424. There were only 1902 weeklies
IN 1880 with a circulation of 2,944.629,
IN 1880 we had Sis weeklies with a total
circulation of 1890, 10Y. But of this
startling increase in both the number of
newspapers and the circle of their readers
the chief advance has been made in the
last ten years officially reported. The
public Journals of the country more than
doubled between 1870, and 1850. and their
circulation increased nearly 10000. 600.
The number of dalies also doubled dur
inh the same decade, and their circula-
ton increased over 100000. The Uni
ted States has more public newspapers
than Germany, France and England com.
bined, and more than all the world out
side of those three nations.
But these remarkable newspaper statis-
tics taken from the official census reports
faiiito record the greatest advancement
IN the journalism of the country. The
growth of newspapers, alike in numbers
quality and readers, since 1880. has been
greater than at any point of our history.
Instead of less than 1000 daily Journals,